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World War II could have been avoided if the Western democracies had sold arms to Spain in the Spanish Civil War, John Gates, an officer of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and a former Communist, said last night at the Kirkland House Forum...
...biggest dynasty of all is perpetuated by the descendants of German immigrant Simon Lazarus, who settled in Columbus in 1850 and started a store that eventually blossomed into Federated Department Stores, the largest U.S. department-store chain. Federated's 60 outlets include New York City's Abraham & Straus and Bloomingdale's, Boston's Filene's, Miami's Burdine's and Houston's Foley's. Last week President Ralph Lazarus, 50, interrupted a Hawaiian vacation to negotiate a deal that will add to his chain the 23 stores (including fashionable I. Magnin...
...sense of how a good politician acts did not come only from the eleven-year experience with John F. Kennedy. Although on a smaller scale than the late President, Sorensen was also brought up on politics. His father, Christian Abraham Sorensen, rose from the Nebraska prairie sod house in which he was born to become state attorney general. His mother, Annis Chaikin Sorensen, was a convinced pacifist and feminist from a Russian-Jewish family...
Brooks (191) won by default over Joel Raichlin of Syracuse, but dropped his next bout to Army's Jake Abraham. Chace pinned Columbia's Bruce Sargent, but was pinned in his second outing by Syracuse's Jim Nance, last year's NCAA heavyweight champion...
...faces. One of the surest signs of Marfan's syndrome is a condition known as arachnodactyly-a spidery hand with long, slender fingers of exceptional dexterity. Many such people succumb to some form of heart disease early in life. One suspected Marfan type who escaped this fate was Abraham Lincoln, who had the hands of a skinny giant...